Christmas in the happiest place in the world...

DISNEYLAND

Our trip to Disneyland was very fun!! We left Christmas day at 8:30am and drove for 6 hours to Anaheim, CA . We arrived at the hotel at about 4:00 in the afternoon. After unloading the cars and checking-in we decided to start the impossible task of finding a restaurant to eat at on Christmas night. The only thing open was good 'ol Denny's! We filled our bellies with some good eats and then we were off to get our rest for our fun day in the morning!!!


OUR CAR!!!

(which ended up not being such a good idea since it rained the whole way there!- but it's okay you all know we were cool anyways!!)

The one Christmas present Brody got was a huge success it kept him busy the 6 hours there and the miserable 10 hour trip back. We had scoped this out but were unsure about how it would work, we went to Wal-mart and it was on sale for $45.00, and we wanted to get a few extra games but they were priced at 19.99, there were a couple on sale for 15.00 so we thought we would just get one or two. But I decided to go price check them at the scanner in the toy section just to make sure they were on sale, they were, but they were only 5.00!!!! And two of them were only 3.00!! So needless to say we bougght all the ones age appropriate for Brody! I thought it was quite the steal!! And after the trip well worth $100 bucks!!


Here is Grandma, Brody, and I waiting in line!!


This is a ride in Space Mountain that Kip really wanted to take Brody on but it went really high and around in circles so I thought Brody was going to be scared but he LOVED IT!! Here he is giving me a thumbs up after finishing the ride!!

Brody and I went and waited for and hour to ride at Autotopia, which was well worth it Brody drove and my stomach hurt because I was laughing so hard. They have guards so you can't drive crazy, they let him drive and everytime it would go over and hit the guard Brody thought it was hilarious, and so did I we were lauging hysterically at one point I think I was crying. We got off and he was so excited, he told me, "Cool Mom!"

But the best part was when Brody got to see Buzz Lightyear!! This was a life-sized Buzz inside the Astro Blaster ride, Brody was beside him self when he saw this talking Buzz!!! I thought he would get all excited asnd start yelling or something but all he could do was stand there with his eyes- wide and jaw-dropped, he didn't say a word it was really funny. Even on the ride you sit in this car and have a gun to help shoot Zurg and the enemies of Buzz and Brody didn't move!

This was after the ride Brody was looking at this picture of Buzz!!

That night we were sitting on the curb in Main Street waiting for the parade when Brody saw WOODY! Brody kept saying, "Dad you, Woody!! Then he would clap and say, "yeah!!" That was until he saw...


BUZZ LIGHTYEAR!!
He jumped up and said,"BUZZ, mom look BUZZ!!"


The next day we spent the whole day in California Adventures, where we saw so many of the characters...

WALL-E

The Incredibles

and we saw Woody walking down the street!!

There were lots of characters walking around CA Adventures but lines were too long to wait for pics. But we saw: Handy Manny, Goofy, Minnie, Stitch, Sleeping Beauty, Tinker Bell, and others.

Other than seeing Buzz Lightyear the other highlight was over in CA Adventures they have a Pixar Parade that was GREAT!!! And brody was so excited to see who led the parade....

LIGHTNING McQUEEN

Our camera died after these pictures, but Woody and Buzz made another Debut in this parade as well. Then to close off the parade Brody was so excited to see, "MATER, LOOK, LOOK!!" The Cars characters were amazing and McQueen looked and sounded like a race car it was amazing!!

Besides being very cold, the whole time we had a blast. I loved watching Fantasmic!!! It was great I love that everything Disneyland does and puts on is huge and very exciting! I didn't get to go on any rides, because of the "new baby" (except the ones with Brody) but I really enjoyed just getting to walk around and take everything in, especially with Brod-man!!

P.S. he was sooooo GOOD the whole time- even the 10 HOUR trip back home. It was ridiculous!! There was so much traffic it put us way behind. At one point we sat in stop and roll traffic for an hour and a half!!! Besides that it was fun to come HOME!! (our home :) even exhausted, that feeling doesn't wear off!!